Technical Delivery Manager – AI/ML (LLM Model training)

Job Profile:

We are looking for a Technical Delivery Manager (“TDM”) as a single-threaded owner of Delivery team output in scope. TDM to lead the end-to-end delivery of complex AI/ML, Generative AI, LLM, and data-driven technology projects. The role will be responsible for translating business and technical requirements into execution plans, managing cross-functional technical teams, and ensuring projects are delivered within defined timelines, quality, scope, and budgets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of projects related to AI/ML, GenAI, LLM, model training, fine-tuning, model evaluation, and AI data projects.
• Define project plans, milestones, resource requirements, dependencies, and delivery priorities.
• Manage cross-functional teams across Data Science, ML Engineering, Data Engineering, AI Operations, Annotation, Training, Quality Check and Quality Audit, and Product/Engineering.
• Work with technical stakeholders to understand requirements, identify dependencies, resolve issues, and drive execution.
• Monitor project timelines, quality, productivity, capacity, utilization, SLAs, and delivery metrics.
• Manage project risks, escalations, change requests, and dependencies to ensure predictable delivery.
• Drive regular governance reviews and communicate project progress, risks, and outcomes to senior stakeholders and clients.
• Ensure effective coordination between technical and business teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Support multiple projects/programs simultaneously and ensure alignment with overall business objectives.
• Manage project financials including revenue, margins, budgets, resource costs, utilization, and profitability.

Required Experience & Skills:

• 8+ years of experience in Technical Project Management, Program Management, Operations Management or Technology Delivery.
• Bachelor's/master’s in technology-related courses from Tier1/Tier 2 institutes preferred.
• Operations/Delivery Team Management experience in AI/ML, GenAI, NLP, LLM, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or related technology domains.
• Good understanding of ML models, model training, LLMs, fine-tuning, data pipelines, model evaluation, and AI/ML workflows.
• Strong experience in managing hybrid teams of process-focus, technical and complex, multi-stakeholder projects.
• Excellent client management, communication, problem-solving, and risk management skills.
• Exposure to cloud platforms, Python, ML frameworks, APIs, MLOps, Data Annotation & Evaluation platforms, AI tools or data platforms.